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- From: hoel@umiacs.umd.edu (Erik Hoel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: (Q) SLIP, Xylogics Annex boxes, MacX, MacTCP, MacSLIP
- Summary: How to display xterms on a Mac
- Message-ID: <61988@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:08:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mimsy.61988
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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- Basically, I would like to be able to display xterms on my Mac at home
- while dialed into a Xylogics Annex box via a high speed modem and run SLIP,
- etc.
-
- On the Mac side, I have MacX 1.7, MacTCP 1.1.1, MacSLIP (a SLIP driver), and
- a v.32bis modem. Various postings to the comp.sys.mac.comm newsgroup have
- confirmed that this is everything that is necessary on the Mac end.
-
- On the unix side, I am dialing into a Xylogics Annex box and rloging into
- a DecStation. The Annex boxes have not been configured yet to run SLIP (it
- is still undecided whether they _ever_ will). One of our system gurus has
- built a SLIP kernel (under Ultrix 4.2) and provided me with a special login
- that runs slattach.
-
- At this point, I am able to login to my slip account via MacSLIP, but after
- the standard login messages scroll by, I am promptly logged out. I have not
- been able to determine whether the Annex boxes are blocking SLIP (do they
- have this functionality?) or whether there is a problem elsewhere.
-
- Does anyone have any experience running SLIP through an Annex box when the
- Annex boxes have not been configured to do so (in the underhanded manner
- that I have described ;-)?
-
- Any pointers, etc. would be most appreciated.
-
- Erik Hoel
- hoel@asgard.umiacs.umd.edu
-